Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:39:52 +0000 From: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> To: "Nathan Lay" <nslay@comcast.net> Cc: current <current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl Message-ID: <a2b6592c0801140139v42bb6ab2s667ebceb9ba3ab16@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <478AE741.1000105@comcast.net> References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <a2b6592c0801131721w25afae5bg3dcf6a90c1a3d2b7@mail.gmail.com> <200801141254.20400.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <a2b6592c0801131838jcde3634le6087d2f784adcbc@mail.gmail.com> <478AE741.1000105@comcast.net>
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On 14/01/2008, Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net> wrote: > cat'ing /dev/cpuinfo sounds reminiscent to Linux /proc. No it doesn't - it's a perfectly fine Unix way of doing things... The purpose of /dev is to provide an interface to the devices on the machine, (query-capable-)CPU is a device... Having /proc as an interface to the kernel on the other hand... Igor :-)
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